Example sentences of "[pron] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I tell yer , Joe old cock , my bleedin' trouble is that I 'm misunderstood meself , I been sufferin' misunderstandin' all me life . |
| 2 | I 've had this twice and each time its been , its been other people , because his got a lot of goods people 's belongings out of one cupboard into another and the second time round there 's been purgatory because he brought Karen 's house , her hoover and the saucepans and everything that was his , everything that belonged to him but he said that before , I said why was Michelle able to jumped in between him and Karen , he said well Karen had been getting moody , and he said Karen was getting bored , Paul is boring , she 's told Paul that his boring boring . |
| 3 | ‘ We know that , stupid , but where have you been all night ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Where have you been all afternoon then ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Where have you been all day ? ’ |
| 6 | Have you been that part there ? |
| 7 | How many times have you been next door ? " |
| 8 | Well , he swears it 's every four weeks , but you say to him ooh , you know you been alright Paul ? |
| 9 | Where 've you been this morning ? |
| 10 | Where you been this morning then ? |
| 11 | Dierdriu said gently , ‘ Had you been half siblings , something might have been permitted . |
| 12 | Mike , has there been extra pressure on you during the past year not to flirt at your radio station ? ’ |
| 13 | Nor has there been much change in the pattern of support from the family . |
| 14 | Why has there been much unemployment in Glasgow and Clydeside during the last 50 years ? |
| 15 | The cyclotron was a research facility through into the 1980s , but was an expensive and remarkable piece of equipment to have appeared in the 1950s in a country where , neither before nor since , has there been much cash for anything scientific . |
| 16 | Saner , Engineer to the Weaver Navigation , in his report to the Royal Commission on Inland Navigations in 1906 mentions Foxton Lift and its costly foundations , which might have been greatly reduced had the subsoil been of a nature or had there been available experience such as that gained in the course of the project . |
| 17 | ‘ Have there been many women , Leo ? ’ |
| 18 | Had there been other questions Puddephat 's widow did n't want to talk about ? |
| 19 | Indeed , only in Lurgan and Dungannon has there been serious complaints about too much security recently . |
| 20 | Of course , the Conservatives won again in 1983 , but the fact that they secured two-thirds of the seats in the Commons with less than half of the popular vote encouraged the centre parties to cry still louder for electoral reform at the same time as the Left were forced to ponder on the fact that had there been proportional representation then the Conservatives would not have been able to form a government without the moderating support of another party in the coalition . |
| 21 | Not only has there been strong opposition to trade unionism and lack of support for union security at enterprise level by employers ( particularly those in small , paternalistic firms ) but trade unions have also not regarded the negotiation of agreements and protection of immediate job interests — certainly at plant level — as their central concern . |
| 22 | The consequence of this ( and the unpredictable timing of death ) is that individuals may leave more to their heirs than they would have left had there been perfect markets . |
| 23 | Had there been sufficient daylight I believe I could , that evening , have turned the tables on the tigress , for the conditions , after she left the shelter of the rocks , were all in my favour . |
| 24 | Fascinating though it was to watch how the women coped with bad weather and good at Southerness , spectators could have learned rather more about the players and their golf had there been portable scoreboards with the leaders on , the last day , not to mention a leader-board behind the home green . |
| 25 | Has there been exceptional wastage ? |
| 26 | After a moment she added , in an offhand tone , ‘ By the way , have there been any phone calls this week when I 've been out ? ’ |
| 27 | Neither has there been any work relating the relaxation of currency controls and the establishment of convertibility within the European Payments Union to changes in the volume and pattern of foreign trade . |
| 28 | Nor has there been any discussion of the growing requirement in the UK ( as elsewhere ) to carry out an environmental impact assessment for all major developments . |
| 29 | ‘ Have there been any reports of missing children ? ’ he demanded . |
| 30 | Have there been any developments on the guitar synth front which you 've taken up for this album ? |